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Candy vs. Confection — What's the Difference?

Candy vs. Confection — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Candy and Confection

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Candy

Candy, also called sweets (British English) or lollies (Australian English, New Zealand English), is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy.

Confection

The act or process of confecting or the result of it
"These sentiments are not the confection of a consummate courtroom actor" (Ron Rosenbaum).

Candy

A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.

Confection

A sweet prepared food, such as candy or cake.

Candy

A piece of such a confection.
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Confection

A sweetened medicinal compound; an electuary.

Candy

(Slang) An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA.

Confection

A piece displaying splendid craft, skill, and work
The gown was a confection of satin and appliqué.

Candy

To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup
Candy apples.
Candy ginger.

Confection

To make into a confection.

Candy

Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

Confection

A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.

Candy

A piece of confectionery of this kind.

Confection

The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.

Candy

Crack cocaine.

Confection

The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
The defense attorney maintained that the charges were a confection of the local police.

Candy

(uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
Candy kid; candy raver

Confection

(dated) An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.

Candy

(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Confection

(dated) Something, such as a garment or a decoration, that is very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also impractical or non-utilitarian.

Candy

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

Confection

(pharmacology) A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.

Candy

(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

Confection

To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.

Candy

(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Confection

A composition of different materials.
A new confection of mold.

Candy

To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

Confection

A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat.
Certain confections . . . are like to candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lemons.

Candy

To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

Confection

A composition of drugs.

Candy

To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
Those frosts that winter bringsWhich candy every green.

Confection

A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.

Candy

To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

Confection

A food rich in sugar

Candy

To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Confection

The act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components

Candy

Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide variety of shapes, consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be applied to a single piece of such confection or to the substance of which it is composed.

Confection

Make into a confection;
This medicine is home-confected

Candy

Cocaine.

Candy

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

Candy

A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

Candy

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

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